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Estow, you must have been in a coma when Wall Street and the banks blew up the US economy and we lost jobs like Mexico lost citizens. You must not have noticed how the housing bubble was a manufactured falsehood designed to make the millionaires -who you don't want to tax- more money at the cost of so many losing their homes. No, wake up please, the public employees are paying the debt that Wall street created. I'm glad you woke up from your coma, but please go back and review the history.

Public school district are FORCED to use the STATE curriculum to develop their curriculum. The real problem is now the state is forcing district to use horrible SCRIPTED curriculum from PAID edu-corps (consultants and pols friends) that real educators know is bad for their students. But hey, when was the last time a parent went to a school, actually talked to their kids, really paid attention to a BOE meeting? Until those things happen, more and more tax dollars will be gobbled up by these new imported *experts* who make a TON off of your tax dollars.

What's gargantuan is our bloated military budget of almost 57% of ALL the federal budget, eating up what they can help the states with. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/budget-2010/ Then we get a governor here who subscribes to the same failed Bush type tax policies that got us in so much trouble in the first place and the same thing happens. Bleeding jobs, rich get richer, middle-class suffers and pays more, and the spiral continues downward. Yeah, that trickle-down isn't what you think it is.

If the trickle-down has worked we would never have bled jobs the way we did. It actually worked to just the opposite effect. Good Job there, snowing so many. This trickle-down has been quite yellow upon the heads of the middle-class. Why people want to continue on this path is beyond me.

I find it interesting that a Christiecrat is writing this, but on second thought maybe not. Greenwald wants to run for gov, he wants people to think he's a real Dem and not a DINO, and he can say all these things knowing that Christie will veto this again and again and again and there will be no hard feelings.

Further, if he and the other Christiecrats were really smart enough to run NJ -and I don't think they are- they would have leveraged the Ben/Pen bill against the millionaire tax. But no, since their desire to appease Norcross and Christie was more important AFTER they saved their own backsides in the previous primary, they (Greenwald et. al.) gave NJ's middle class a one-two punch. Way to go guys, why would ANYONE called a dem vote for you or your kind?

DJ, the other organization will throw out more experienced and higher paid teachers to save a buck, or to hire their nephew, if they weren't protected by LIFO. Who would want to work for a place like that? If the "best and the brightest" live up to that name, they'll not deal with the BS and go to an organization that would pay them a lot more to expose them to those risks.

NJNews, The CAN'T crackdown on favoritism and nepotism because the politicians -especially Christie- will be exposed for their own flavor of it. If they do it for one sector, education, how can they justify not doing it everywhere else? It will open a can of worms they'd prefer never sees the light of day.

V232m, they will put a christiecrat up against christie, who just like CC is a Norcross stooge, just so CC does win again. They have already conspired to get CC elected again by promoting a democrat-betrayer of this sort. http://www.bluejersey.com/diary/18798/better-know-a-betrayer This choice is as bad as no choice at all.

Yup we see how well CC is doing for NJ jobs, we're bleeding them left and right, poverty is rising at an alarming rate, and he wants NJ schools to be like those in New Orleans - NOT something to aspire to in our state. The man is wrecking the state except for the very rich.

It's a shame so many New Jersey residents bought McMansions with price tags way over their heads, home completely unsustainable on one income. With affordable homes come affordable property tax bills. Stop being mad at others for your poor decision making skills.

It doesn't matter who wrote the piece, the facts of Christie's behavior speak for him. CC is a mean, angry, bully who won't tolerate in others what he dishes out daily. He's an embarrassment for the state and will never get national office because of it. No one wants a rude and disrespectful loose cannon dealing in sensitive national issues. The man needs to take a Kindergarten class about how to treat others, it's as basic as that.

Say something often enough and loud enough, people will begin to believe it. This is Christie's "Mission Accomplished" moment, a page right out of the Bush's playbook. Not at all based in fact but heavily steeped in propaganda.

Kudo's to the Christie shill for the solar comment, but seriously, the state is still hemorrhaging jobs and no amount of zero-cost skin in the game is going to change that. Maybe he'll layoff more public employees, who then won't be able to support local small businesses, who then won't be able to keep their employees, and so on and so forth.

Nora, all statistics and reports I've seen do not agree with the line that 'billionaires are fleeing for less taxes.' Maybe you can provide the proof? The ones who are leaving, are retirees and ironically the children of residents... to go to college and work outside of NJ. See, with almost 10% unemployment here NJ is a losing option and truly that is the larger issue at stake here. But Christie only invests NJ tax money with his buddies and it has nothing to do with the little guy. Boy, are you guys in for a rude awakening when you stop drinking his kookaid.

Christie said ""Simply wishing for more money to pay the bills is a reckless, childish, guaranteed path towards financial disaster." Isn't that exactly what he's doing with his income tax relief? The rich will get 5 and 6 figure rebates and the rest of us will get maybe 1k. Seriously? And with this state STILL in the hole as it is, he wants to bleed it more by giving to his buddies? IF those buddies of his have not been able to create jobs with the last 10 yrs of Bush tax cuts, they sure as heck aren't now. They are, however, driving great cars and going on awesome vacations.